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TIL that the US once spent $1.3 million dollars to see if beer koozies really worked

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oYWL TIL WWII concentration camps in Croatia were even more brutal than those in Nazi Germany. Prisoners were cremated alive, disemboweled and thrown in rivers, killed with mallets, drowned in latrines, tied together in groups and thrown down 300m shafts. On a bet, Petar Brzica, cut the throats of 1,360.
X0K18 TIL William Tecumseh Sherman's niece was named Euthanasia Sherman. She was a doctor
nWrkY TIL In the 1950s the CIA would spread rumors of vampires in the Philippines to dissuade communist rebels. They would ambush the back member of a patrol silently, kill them before draining them of blood and poking two holes in their neck before leaving the body just off the road.
W7aRY TIL The Average weight for males in the United States ages 20 years and older is 199.8 pounds
OoY0R TIL Researchers at King's College London found that the drug Tideglusib stimulates the stem cells contained in the pulp of teeth so that they generate new dentine – the mineralised material under the enamel.